Keep end users secure with WebTitan's web-blocking ability, designed for MSP’s, businesses, and the education sector.
Web blocking, also known as web filtering, or content filtering is used to create a defensive barrier for users against advanced security threats and preventing access to certain websites. Such websites may be offensive, inappropriate, or high-risk to security threats.
WebTitan DNS Filter prevents access to specified websites and harmful domains. WebTitan is used as a method to control internet access for various clients, no matter the industry or sector.
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Why is Web Blocking Important?
Web blocking is an important element of a web content filtering solution for many reasons. Here are the top critical reasons why organizations must have a web blocking solution:
- Employee Internet Management
Web blocking allows organizations to manage their employee’s access to unsuitable websites. Employee internet management is essential for managing compliance requirements, bandwidth usage, or other business concerns.
- CIPA Compliance
K12 schools in the US are required to use a web content filter to prevent minors from being exposed to obscene visual content. In order to receive e-Rate funding, CIPA compliance is a requirement.
- Cybersecurity
A web content filter can drastically improve the security of an organization by blocking access to websites that are high-risk or recognized as dangerous, thus blocking all harmful malware such as phishing, viruses, ransomware & malicious sites
- Bandwidth Management
Some organizations network performance can be significantly reduced due to the overuse of bandwidth. Websites such as YouTube, Netflix etc. can be blocked or restricted to reduce bandwidth usage.
- Productivity Management
A DNS filter solution with web blocking abilities enables organizations to block access to distracting websites such as social media platforms, computer games, and video streaming services.
- Legal Liability
Web blocking is critical to prevent access to inappropriate content such as porn, grotesque imagery, violence, and profanity. Organizations have a legal liability to block underage users from accessing adult content and to reduce the potential for internet abuse to cause a hostile work environment.
We have been very happy with the WebTitan Web Filter since deploying it. It’s given us a 360-degree view of internet use in the company allowing us manage internet usage and minimize non-work related browsing and access to unsafe sites.
WebTitan Web Blocker for Education
WebTitan offers safe internet browsing for children, providing protection from harmful and obscene web content whether they are studying at school or at home. Web security is available for all devices, including Chromebooks, Windows, iOS, and Apple.
WebTitan on-the-go [OTG] provides web filtering for K12 schools, strengthening schools CIPA compliance to provide students with a safe environment to study whether in the classroom or at home. This offers a fast and cost-effective way to apply filtering polices to your schools Chromebooks from the cloud. Protect your students with award-winning web security and safe search enforcement.
Web blocking for children and students prevents them from accessing inappropriate websites.
Web Blocker for Business
A web blocker is essential for businesses to not only keep their business safe from advanced threats, but to ensure employees don’t access harmful websites, and sometimes it is used to prevent employee procrastination.
Web Blocking for MSP’s
A web blocker solution is a key element to have as part of your MSP tech stack, to ensure your end-user stumble onto unsafe sites or access malicious URLs that could leave them at risk of a cyberattack.
WebTitan DNS Filter as a web blocker will ensure all end-users are protected by blocking malware, phishing, viruses, ransomware & malicious sites.
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What Types of Webpages are Blocked by WebTitan?
WebTitan web blocker has several categories for pages that will be blocked for end users. These are the categories of websites are automatically blocked at the source:
- Anonymizer - Web pages that promote proxies and anonymizers for surfing websites with the intent of circumventing filters
- Compromised - Web pages that have been compromised by someone other than the site owner, which appear to be legitimate, but house malicious code
- Criminal Skills / Hacking - Activities that violate human rights including murder, sabotage, bomb building, etc. Information about illegal manipulation of electronic devices, encryption, misuse, and fraud. Warez and other illegal software distribution
- Hate Speech - Web pages that promote extreme right/left wing groups, sexism, racism, religious hate and other discrimination Illegal
- Drugs - Web pages that promote the use or information of common illegal drugs and the misuse of prescription drugs and compounds
- Mature - Sites not appropriate for children. Includes sites with content about alternative lifestyles, profanity, etc.
- Nudity - Web pages that display full or partial nudity with no sexual references or intent
- Phishing/Fraud - Manipulated web pages and emails used for fraudulent purposes, also known as phishing
- Pornography / Sex - Explicit sexual content unsuitable for persons under the age of 18
- Spam - Products and web pages promoted through spam techniques
- Spyware and Malicious Sites - Sites or software that installs on a users computer with the intent to collect information or make system changes without the users consent.
- Violence - Web pages that promote questionable activities such as violence and militancy
WebTitan’s SafeSearch feature helps keep adults & potentially offensive content out of your search results including image searches and web searches. Safe Search is enabled automatically for Google, YouTube, Bing and Duckduckgo.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How Does a Web Blocker Work?
A DNS-based web block stops websites from being loaded in a user browser at the point at which name servers perform a query on the friendly domain name and link it to its host IP address. This strategy lowers network bandwidth use and avoids less effective web blockers using categories and proxies.
Do Site Blockers Affect Sser Productivity?
Good web blockers don’t interfere with legitimate web traffic and aim to have a low false positive count. Some web traffic is legitimate, so a good web content filter has continual updates to remove sites that clean up any malicious code and those that need to be added to the list when new domains are found to host malware. Cloud-based filters like WebTitan receive continual updates from developers as threat intelligence uncovers new malicious domains.
What Features Does a Good Website Blocker Software Have?
For enterprise-tier website blockers, the software should have features that help administrators deploy the application across the environment, controls to make changes, and add users to the system. Administrators should also be able to review reports and get information on users consistently blocked for inappropriate web requests and the number of domains added to the list. Allow listing should be available so administrators can allow some websites to specific user groups, or allowlists are necessary in case of false positives. Blocklists allow administrators to block some sites
manually. All web-blocking activity applies to configure user groups, which is important when some users need to access sites that might be blocked. For example, security people might need access to suspicious websites from a sandboxed environment.
How Do You Block Employees from Accessing Websites?
Proxies and web blockers using categories and a centralized dashboard were traditional methods to block inappropriate sites, but DNS-based blocking is much more efficient. Cloud-based site blockers using third-party vendors stop users from making DNS requests, and the vendor deploys continual updates to the numerous new and updated domains across the internet.